493 

 Ell. angulosa, Nitscli. Pyr. Germ. p. 173. 



Spkcsria pYunastri, B. Betulcz, Sonim. Flor. Lappon. p. 208. 

 SphcEria Halseyana, Schw. Syn. N. Am. 1319. 

 Eutypella angulosa, Sacc. Syll. 572. 

 Exsicc. Ell. & Evrht, N. A F. 2d Ser. 1574. 



Stroma conical, whitish inside, disk ellipsoid or triangular, |-1 

 cm. Ions', 2-3 mm. wide. Perithecia numerous, small, ovoid>, lying in 

 the bottom of the stroma, walls thick, black, coriaceous, contracteil 

 into a long neck above, terminating in the short-cylindrical, deeply 

 4-5-cleft ostiola. Asci (p. sp.) 80-40 x 4-5 /7, with a long, filiform 

 base. Sporidia 8 in an ascus. allantoid, brownish or yellowisli, rather 

 thicker in the middle, 6-7 x 1 J-2 [i, ends subobtuse. 



On dead birch limbs, New York State. 



This certainly is very closely allied to Eu. pniiiasin. 



Eu. rugiella, (C. & E.) 



Valsa rugiella, C. & E. Grev. V, p. 92. 

 Eutypella rugiella, Sacc. Syll. 596. 

 Exsicc. EU. N. A. F. 176. 



Perithecia minute (200 // diam.), 10-20 crowded in orbicular 

 clusters just beneath the epidermis, which is slightly elevated. Pus- 

 tules very numerous and sometimes subseriately arranged, not circum- 

 scribed, necks vei-y short, and the short-cylindrical, faintly sulcate. 

 finally umbilicate ostiola erumpent in a compact fascicle, but not much 

 exserted. Asci (p. sp.) about 25 x 5 /.(. Sporidia subbiseriate, cylin- 

 drical, nearly straight and nearly hyaline, 4-5x1//. 



On bark of dead maple, Newfield, N. J. 



Eu. veniista, (Ell.) 



Valsa venusia, Ell. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, IX, p. 112. 

 Eutypella venusta, Sacc. Syll. 591. 

 Exsicc. Ell. N. A. F. 875. 



Perithecia 15-20, 250 y. diam., lying in a loose, cortical stromn, 

 3-4 mm. diam., and circumscribed by a black line penetrating deeply 

 into the wood. Ostiola cylindrical, roughish, slender, slightly swollen 

 above, convergent and erumpent through cracks in the bark, but, 

 scarcely exserted, 2-^3 times as long as the diameter of the perithecium, 

 more or less distinctly 4-sulcate at the apex, but often rounded and 

 smooth; united at first in a black, uneven, elongated disk which is 

 finally obliterated. Ar^ci clavate, p. sp. 30 x 35 p.. Sporidia subbi- 

 seriate, allantoid, curved, subhyaline, 7-9 x \\-\\ //. 



On dead branches o{ Robinia pseudacacia, Newfield, N. J. 



Specc. of Valsa conseptata, Schw. in Herb. Schw., are diiferent 



